The first people Random.org picked had already bought the book, which is a very good sign. The third one is Gloria Richard!

Note to Gloria:
Please let me know what sort of e-reader you use and I will send the book to you in that format. If you’d prefer me to send it right to your device (IYKWIM), I believe I can do that too. (Do I know my tech-challenged posse members, or what?) 🙂

I hope you all are getting ready for an outstanding weekend! The stomach virus has finally left our house so we shall be celebrating like mad.

I almost clicked the handy linky-love to purchase the book myself. I’m glad I didn’t. Not because I’m too cheap. Not because I didn’t truly want to read Come Back to Me. Why, then? Because, I get to have my name IN BOLD on The Jenny Hansen More Cowbell site. How cool is that?

Moi? Techie challenged? I use Kindle for PC on my Windows 8 enabled laptop. I leave it to you to unravel how the book moves from point available to point downloadable. I typically bring my books in from The Amazon.

You have my email. Feel free to assume pretend I’m a whack-a-doodle when you craft the instructions.

Thanks from the bottom of my cucumber-enhanced Mundies. Kidding!

I gave those up for lent.

I’ll be back to pimp and promote. Now that G-man Zack is back on Cowbell radar with K.B. and filbio in line with him, I have to keep up the Common Tater count if I hope to win your Prolific Participant Prize this year.

I’d love to pimp out Barbara McDowell. 🙂 I am a huge reality TV junkie and have been watching American Idol’s new season with a passion. The talent this year is out of this world; especially the ladies – wowzers! And I wait with bated breath after each episode for Barbara’s Rants from an Idol Addict: http://barbaramcdowell.net/2013/03/22/american-idol-recap-top-9-elimination/
She is always spot on and I love her sarcasm, humor and gritty critics. They always make me smile….

Pimpage: I’m just finishing up teaching my first class for Margie Lawson’s Writers Academy “Submissions that Sell!” and I really enjoyed it – have some high-level students, with nice shiny new submissions! I’ll be teaching it again in September.

Promotage:Have you heard about the new Women’s Fictions Writers Association? Non profit/Non RWA group. WF is defined as “the story of a woman’s journey.” If you write stories like that, check it out – we’ll be taking memberships soon! In the meantime, we have a Yahoo loop. If you’d like to get into that, email me at laura_drake1123 (at) Yahoo.

Gloria, congrats on winning Coleen’s book! You also want to win top commenter on Jenny’s site, eh? Good luck with that, hunny. 😉

I’d like to pimp Rachel Funk Heller. She’s a fab writer, blogger, and WANA teacher, and she’s working really hard to pull together a workshop series to support a Fast-Draft-like marathon we’re doing in April, called “Emotion Draft.” Really looking forward to it! She’s “kupaianaha” as her locals would say (meaning “wonderful” – at least, according to wikiAnswers, LOL – who knows, maybe I just called her a brussels sprout or something). 😉

Still promoting Dangerous and Unseemly, my debut mystery novel! I’ve got a couple of nice reviews, and I’m starting to get positive feedback as folks finish reading the novel, which is exciting. Also super-funny/kinda cool when Amazon tried to promote my own book to me the other day, LOL.

I’d like to promote one thing; http://www.tomwisk.wordpress.com . It’s the beginning of a reboot of my blog. And pimping OneStory.com it’s a site that has a short story every three weeks. You can subscribe for eighteen bucks. It’s a nice treat getting a story in the mail and it can be an outlet for that short story you’ve got stashed and have been hard-pressed to find a genre mag for.

I really enjoyed reading Coleen Patrick’s post about Tattoo Envy. I know many people who have them, including my fiancee’.

And I found a new blog group that I recently joined that I’d like to promote. The Northeast Bloggers Network. It’s a great group of bloggers that are located in the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It’s a small group so far and they also have a facebook site. Nice people there.